July 20, 1930
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Construction N e w s Chemical Sharp & Dohme, Inc., Broad and Wallace Sts., Philadelphia, Pa., manufacturer of chemical specialties, drugs, etc., occupying the former plant of the H . K. Mulford Co., recently acquired, h a s authorized a n expansion program for increased capacity, con sisting of a five-story factory on a n adjoining site at Mount Ver non and Fifteenth Sts. totaling about 100,000 sq. ft. of floor space, to cost over $200,000, including equipment. A considerable portion of the unit will b e equipped for processing, compounding, and similar production. A new power plant will be installed, oil-burning type. I t is proposed t o begin work on the superstruc ture at an early date. I t is understood that contract for t h a t work has been awarded t o the United Engineers & Constructors, Inc., 112 North Broad St., Philadelphia. A. Homer Smith is president. Stauffer Chemical Co., 634 California St., San Francisco, Calif., manufacturer of chemical products, potash, and sulfur specialties, has approved plans for a n addition to its plant on North Cali fornia St., to be two-story and basement, estimated to cost a p proximately $40,000, including equipment. August Nordin, Mills Bldg., S a n Francisco, is architect. The main offices of t h e company are a t 422 Lexington Ave., N e w York. American Solvents & Chemical Corp., 122 Fast Forty-second S t . , N e w York, i s planning an expansion program in its plant at Lawrenceburg, Ind-, comprising t h e former factories of t h e Rossville Commercial Alcohol Co. and Greendale Co., recently a c quired. The units will be extended and additional equipment installed to increase the present output of industrial alcohol about one-third. I t is estimated t h a t the expansion program will cost over $250,000. Victor M . O'Shaughnessy, formerly head of the Rossville company, is now president of t h e American Sol vents company. The Solvay Process Co., Solvay, Syracuse, Ν. Υ., manufacturer of alkali products, etc., a subsidiary of the Allied Chemical & D y e Corp., 6 1 Broadway, N"ew York, has arranged a fund of about $4,000,000, for extensions and improvements in i t s plant, with buildings and equipment t o provide for about double i t s present capacity. The work will include a new pipe line for brine service from the company's wells in Tully Valley t o the Solvay site, to cost approximately $1,000,000, of the fund noted. T h e program will be carried out over a period of months beginning at once, and will cover the soda ash, bicar oonate of soda, caustic, and distillation divisions, as well as additional chemical laboratory facilities. The Harshaw Chemical Co., 1400 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio, manufacturer of chemicals, oils, colors, etc., has taken out a building permit for a one-story addition to its laboratory, re ported t o c o s t approximately $30,000, including equipment. The company also has plans for a one-story unit for foundry service, t o cost a similar sum. Paper Products The National Folding Box Co., James St., N e w H a v e n , Conn., manufacturer of folding paper cartons, paper boxes, etc., b a s taken out a permit for a n addition to its plant for increased c a pacity, consisting of a four-story structure, 83 X 178 ft., reported to cost approximately $170,000, including machinery. Work will be placed under w a y a t once. Fletcher-Thompson, Inc., 542 Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport, Conn., is architect and engineer. Miscellaneous The Ralston Purina Co., 835 South Eighth St., St. Louis, Μ.Ό., manufacturer of cereals, etc., has approved plans for an addition to its mill, comprising a n eight-story brick and reinforced c o n crete structure, 56 X 128 ft., reported to cost approximately $200,000, including machinery. Excavation has been started and work on the superstructure will soon be placed under w a y . The company engineering department is in charge. The National Oil Products Co., Essex St., Harrison, N. J., manu facturer of special oil products, using concentrate of cod-liver oil as a base, has taken out a permit for a n addition to i t s plant, to be four-story and basement, 6 0 X 85 ft. Two floors in "the new unit will be given over to manufacture, while t h e other floors will b e used for laboratory, research, and other technical production service. T h e expansion is estimated to cost over $200,000, including equipment. Bishop & Scuddef, 9 Clinton St., Newark, N . J., are architects and engineers. C . P. Gulick is treasurer. The Hercules Powder Co., Delaware Trust Bldg., Wilmington, Del., will carry o u t an expansion and betterment program at its explosive manufacturing plant near Carthage, M o . , t o include the erection of nine new one-story buildings, designed t o replace
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several existing smaller units. The installation "will provide for a n enlarged output. The work will cost more than $l€>0,000, in cluding equipment, and will be carried out under the direction of the company engineering department; R. KZ. HaLlettis construc tion engineer. J. S. Marks is plant superiixtendeiot. The Bakélite Corp., 247 Park Ave., New Vork, manufacturer of composition insulation products, will begin -work s i t an early date on its proposed new plant on a tract of land recently s e c u i c d at Bound Brook, N. J., consisting of a group of one-, "two, a n d threestory buildings, 405 X 410 ft., 128 X 222 ft., 10O Χ 2Ο0 ft., and smaller, with power house, pumping plant, machine shop, and other mechanical units to cost approximately SI,000,000, includ ing machinery. Francisco & Jacobus, 511 E^ifth i^ve., ÎSTew York, are architects and engineers, in charge. Soaps, Washing Powders, Etc. The Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co., Seventeenth! and Kansas Sts., Kansas City, Mo., manufacturer of toilet a_xid otlier soaps, washing powders, etc., has filed plans and will proceecl with an addition to its local plant for liquid soap sexvice, including tower unit, 125 ft. high, for material distribution under pressure, estimated to cost approximately S100,000, including ecuiipment. Contract for structural steel-framing has been -awarded t o the Kansas City Structural Steel Co., Twenty-first S t . The Los Angeles Soap Co., Los Angeles Railway B l d g . , Los Angeles, Calif., has approved plans for a n e w pleintat Wilmington, Los Angeles Harbor, for which work o n t h e superstructure will be placed under way at once. It will h>e one-story,. 40 X 345 ft., to cost over $60,000, including equipment. l i t is ixnderstood that a portion of its factory will be given over t:o seed-crushing and extracting for raw material supply; converyor equipment, etc., will be installed for such service. The Procter & Gamble Co., Gwynne Bldg£., Cincinnati, Ohio, is arranging for the early erection of a supexstruc-fcurc f o r its proposed new plant on a tract of land acquired several rrxonths ago at Long Beach, Calif., and referred t o in "these oolurruns at that time. An award for excavating work has been, let t o Graham Bros., Inc., 1512 West Seventh St., Long Beach, ^.nd foundations will be laid soon. The plant will consist of several production units, with power house, machine shop, aaid miscellaneous mechanical buildings, and is reported t o cos"t over- $3,500,000, including machinery. Stone & Webster, Iixc, L o s Angeles, with headquarters at 49 Federal St., Boston, ^Mass.^ is engineer, in charge.
Margarine Statistics The following figures show the actual margarine production as reported by margarine manufacturers to the J3ureau of Internal Revenue for the month of M a y : Production of uncolored margarine Production of colored margarine Total production Per cent decrease
Butter Coconut oil Color Cottonseed oil Derivative of glycerol Edible tallow Lecithin Milk Mustard oil Neutral lard Oleo oil Oleo stéarine Oleo stock Palm oil Peanut oil Salt Soda (benzoate of) Soya bean TOTAL TOTAL. INGREDIENTS FOR COLORED AND UNCOLORED. .
M a y , 1930 founds 23,683,1SS U 128,356 24,811,544 12.5
INGREDIENTS DIP UNCOLORED MARGARINE
INGREDIENTS OP COLORED IYIARGARINE
Pounds 119,121 12,827,632
Pounds 1,989 408,412 1467 124,983
. 1,990,145 10.840
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6,623,061 2,175 1,034,263 2,787,024 492,782 91.688 28,473 490.581 1,990,508 6,268 214,268 28,709,091
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312,264 118,068 269,591 13,015 6,489 10,684 15,527 95,649 97
1,378,256 30.087'.347 oounds
Esselen Opens Offices and Laboratories Gustavus J. Esselen, Jr., announces tihe opening- of offices and laboratories a t 73 Newbury St., Boston, IMass.^ where he and his associates will give personal attention, to problems of chemical research and technical development. Doctor Esselen will continue to act as technical adviser to several manufacturing corporations and, while specializing i n t h e field of cellulose and its derivatives, he and his associates are prepared to undertake research o n a limited number of problems in other fields which their experience has fitted them to handle.
